Continuity Editing task

In Media recently we have been established a task that is to test us on how well we can follow the 180 degree rule, and how well we can edit to try and make for as much continuity as possible.

The 180 degree rule is a standard guideline for the on-screen spacial relationship between the two characters or objects inside the frame. The rule allows for the spacial relationship between the characters to be consistent; when the camera changes from the 2 arcs, the characters will remain in their rightful positions or perspectives. They won't seem to be on the incorrect left or right side; just the direction they were originally in. Continuity editing is basically shooting and editing in a way that looks like from one shot, the next shot is a direct continuation from the previous shot. Such as, if you shoot an over the shoulder of a person walking up to a door and they are about to open it, and then the next shot is in front of the door watching them open it, this is continuity editing.

For the task, it's fairly simple. We need to shoot a 1 minute clip which doesn't specifically matter what we shoot; as long as when we edit we follow the rules of continuity. We have chosen to shoot a short video of 2 boys who have an argument within our school.

Here is the sheet we were given with all of the guidelines and requirements for the task.

The first thing we had to do was create our storyboard. This took us approximately 1 lesson, here it is below:

I will blog our final continuity edit once it is completed.